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Feb 22, 2012
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Wild Swans
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over
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Feb 21, 2012
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Poem
by Cynthia Arrieu-King
A pink dozen sunshine trapezoids
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Feb 19, 2012
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The House-top
by Herman Melville
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air
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Feb 17, 2012
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Birth
by Tina Chang
I was locked into a single seed, my future fathoming
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Feb 15, 2012
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Sita
by Jason Schneiderman
Do you remember Sita? How when Hanuman came to rescue her
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Feb 13, 2012
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Fixed Interval
by Devin Johnston
When he turns fifteen, you'll be fifty-four
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Feb 12, 2012
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Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson
Drinke to me, onely, with thine eys
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Feb 9, 2012
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Superstition
by Amy Lowell
I have painted a picture of a ghost
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Feb 7, 2012
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Red Wand
by Sandra Simonds
Sometimes I try to make poetry but mostly
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Feb 3, 2012
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From Honey to Ashes
by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
What follows is terms and classifications, the West
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Feb 2, 2012
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The Whistler
by Sommer Browning
Here I am so selfish I only remember my reaction
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Feb 1, 2012
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Here City
by Rick Snyder
The sounds
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Jan 30, 2012
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Lamp or Mirror
by Tony Barnstone
When strange light stirs the mirror, forces swirl
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Jan 29, 2012
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Complaint
by William Carlos Williams
They call me and I go
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Jan 28, 2012
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Travelling
by William Wordsworth
This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun
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Jan 27, 2012
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Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyreand gimble in the wabe;
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Jan 22, 2012
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The Snow Fairy
by Claude McKay
Throughout the afternoon I watched them there
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Jan 21, 2012
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January
by Helen Hunt Jackson
O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire
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Jan 19, 2012
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Comet Hyakutake
by Arthur Sze
Comet Hyakutake's tail stretches for 360 million miles
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Jan 16, 2012
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We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies
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Jan 16, 2012
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Sympathy
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
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Jan 15, 2012
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London Snow
by Robert Bridges
When men were all asleep the snow came flying
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Jan 10, 2012
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The Vista
by C. Dale Young
Not tenderness in the eye but the brute need
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Jan 8, 2012
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Winter Heavens
by George Meredith
Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive
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Jan 7, 2012
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The Magi
by W. B. Yeats
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye
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Jan 6, 2012
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Item:
by Lynn Emanuel
I strolled through the neighborhood of beautiful houses
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Jan 5, 2012
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Gold River Neck Riddle
by Catie Rosemurgy
What is red and singing on the inside, gray and moaning on the outside?
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Jan 4, 2012
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Love
by Katy Lederer
We go back to our house. We are lovers
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Dec 30, 2011
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The Old Year
by John Clare
The Old Year's gone away
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Dec 29, 2011
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Thursday
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
And if I loved you Wednesday
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Dec 27, 2011
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Winter-Time
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed
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Dec 26, 2011
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Winter
by Walter De La Mare
And the robin flew
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Dec 22, 2011
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Scryer's Bridge
by Carol Guess
Thirteen on ice, skating, I died
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Dec 20, 2011
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Talk
by Noelle Kocot
My body is
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Dec 18, 2011
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Ecce Puer
by James Joyce
Of the dark past
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Dec 17, 2011
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Translation
by Anne Spencer
He trekked into a far country
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Dec 16, 2011
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Untitled [1950 June 27]
by Don Mee Choi
1950 June 27: my father heard the sound of the engine of a North Korean fighter plane
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Dec 13, 2011
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Blustery
by Neil Shepard
Blustery 25-below, O Walt, I wouldn't go
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Dec 12, 2011
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Horoscope
by Maureen N. McLane
Again the white blanket
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Dec 10, 2011
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Frost at Midnight
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The frost performs its secret ministry
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Dec 2, 2011
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Enemies
by Dante Micheaux
The thing about entertaining them
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Dec 1, 2011
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The Gardenia
by Cornelius Eady
The trouble is, you can never take
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Nov 28, 2011
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Swell
by Hoa Nguyen
Swell you can dream
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Nov 26, 2011
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We Are Seven
by William Wordsworth
--A simple child,
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Nov 24, 2011
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Fire Dreams
by Carl Sandburg
I remember here by the fire
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Nov 22, 2011
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Memento
by Eamon Grennan
Scattered through the ragtaggle underbrush starting to show green shoots
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Nov 21, 2011
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Sundown
by Jorie Graham
Sometimes the day
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Nov 20, 2011
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Moonlight
by Sara Teasdale
It will not hurt me when I am old
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Nov 19, 2011
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I Sit and Sew
by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems
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Nov 18, 2011
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Brief Lives [excerpt]
by Ken Chen
Love, accepting that we are not pure and lucent hearts, ricocheting towards
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